Music is a fine art which makes us feel on top of the world. Conventional music instruments offer soothing music to ears. Apart from them, there are a number of unique instruments also, which can produce exceptional sounds. Such instruments are devised on the basis of simple science principles.These instruments donât produce mere sounds, but melodious sounds. Letâs take a look at the 7 weirdest musical instruments
1. Eigenharp: This instrument uses MIDI to create audio nodes. It is long and thin in its construction and consists of joystick like keys. These keys are more sensitive than a typical keyboard, and can sense movement in 5 different directions. This digital device is plugged into a computer to produce sound. It utilizes Mac based software as the running platform, to assign functions to different keys.
2. Ondes Martenot: It is an electronic instrument, which utilizes a vacuum tube oscillator. Sound is produced by the amplification of cyclic electronic signals inside the vacuum tube. The device requires use of both left and right hand for operation. The right hand will play the piano style key board, while left hand would control the sound intensity.
3.Theremin: This unique instrument doesnât require any physical contact for producing sound. It produces nodes on the basis of heterodyne principle, which states that when two radio waves overlap on each other, a beat frequency is produced. Your body will act like a tuning fork, once you stand in front of it. As you move your hands, the frequency vibrations within the instruments tube changes and fine music is produced.
4. Tenori-on: It is a hand held screen having an arrangement of 256 LED buttons switches, which are arranged in a grid pattern. On pushing the switches, fine nodes are produced. The instrument includes six performance and sound modes and ten function buttons, for changing octaves. It even provides memory card slot option to facilitate voice recording uploads.
5. Hydraulophone: This unique musical instrument produces fine music utilizing water as the power source. The working is more like that of a flute, with the exception that mouth is not involved in this. Water is blown into the instruments reeds with the help of a pump. Reeds are actually the constricted mouthpieces. The player then puts his fingers into the instruments mouthpieces and adjusts the coverage to produce a musical sound.
6. Glass harmonica: This is also known as the bowl organ or hydrocrystalophone. This instrument utilizes friction to create music. The player moves his moistened fingers over a series of different size rotating glass bowls, producing a soft and smooth sound. The sound intensity depends on the bowl size and the amount of moisture in the players fingers.
7. Phonoharp: It is a record player having inbuilt strings of nylon or steel. As the strings are plucked, vibrations are produced. The vibrations are further amplified and get picked up by the record player. The record player then acts as a microphone and integrates those vibrations into the current track being played.
